Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagan Watson
McCredden, Lyn 2007, Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagan Watson, Australian literacy studies, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 153-167.
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Contemporary poetry and the sacred: Vincent Buckley, Les Murray and Samuel Wagan Watson
VINCENT Buckley's Golden Builders and Other Poems (1976) is an important poetic experiment in its direct and exulted address to the city and to the sacred. The city is Melbourne in which Buckley lived, worked and wrote for forty years. In the original volume, the epigraph to the twenty-seven part sequence 'Golden Builders' is from William Blake's Jerusalem, a profound and idiosyncratic yoking together of the corporeal and the sacred